The young are at the heart of the Blas festival this year

[Donald Morrison – Presenter] Young people will be at the very centre of Blas Festival this year, as the it celebrates its tenth year since it started in September, the group who organise it want the festival to return to its roots. The festival programme was published today, with many musical events taking place, and plenty of shinty too. Donald Lamont reports.

[Donald Lamont – Reporter] Blas Festival was set up ten years ago as a result of a group from the Highland Council visiting the Celtic Colours festival in Canada. From then the festival has increased greatly with over four hundred events having taken place since then.

[Arthur Cormack] Well there are different things taking place but especially this year we’re focusing on young people again and we’re finalising things with the Fèisean and the young people involved with the Fèisean from all over Scotland, and we wanted to do this in its tenth year to mark how important young people’s have been the festival since it started.

[Donald Lamont – Reporter] In addition to music, there will also be a focus on shinty, with a series of events taking place across the Highlands, conveying the effects of the First World War on Highland sport and what ties this piper has to a famous cup.

[Hugh Dan MacLennan] A lot of it is based on this cup – the MacGillivray Cup – and also Duncan MacGillivray’s family, the piper, as they have a particular tie with it, and we will be explaining that history as well as marking the First World War and how the Gaels took shinty overseas.

[Donald Lamont – Reporter] Funding this type of festival each year is a challenge, but the success of Blas until now gives them encouragement to continue for another ten years. Donald Lamont, BBC An Là, Inverness.

Òigridh aig teis-mheadhan Fèis Bhlas am-bliadhna

(The young are at the heart of the Blas festival this year)

VocabularyBriathrachas

teis-mheadhan - very centre

freumhaichean - roots

mar thoireadh air - as a result of

a’ Chiad Chogadh - First World War

maoineachadh - funding

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